This article explores the potential for development of student autonomy in a modern Russian comprehensive school. Despite extensive evidence importance teachers’ support school foreign studies and global trend towards an initiative conscious position schoolchildren relation to learning, psychology education, question value practices such from teachers is currently insufficiently reflected. Stud...

Only scarce documentation is available concerning the professional characteristics of students within audiology training programs. In the current study, audiology students were asked to complete a questionnaire that explored some of the major issues of student professionalism. Equal numbers of questionnaires were sent to both Doctor of Audiology (AuD) and master's degree programs to determine t...

Autonomy supportive (rather than controlling) coaching has been shown to be important for motivating athletes and for boosting their performance. However, is this especially true for elite-level athletes, who presumably face greater stress and performance pressure? To address this question we surveyed 264 student athletes (141 recreational, 83 club sport, and 40 varsity) playing on sports teams...

Language learning research in Japan has categorized students’ motivational orientations as multifaceted and leaning towards extrinsic orientations. Meanwhile, as self-determination theory correlates intrinsic motivation to academic success, we argue that enhancing intrinsic motivation is necessary to foster autonomous learners. Many studies categorize motivational orientations, but rarely, have...

Using basic psychological needs theory (BPNT; Ryan & Deci, 2000) as our guiding framework, we explored cultural differences in the relationships among physical education students' perceptions of teacher autonomy support, psychological need satisfaction, subjective vitality and effort in class. Seven hundred and fifteen students (age range from 13 to 15 years) from the U.K. and Hong Kong, China,...

Autonomous robots effectively support the human workforce in a variety of industries such as logistics or health care. With an increasing level of system autonomy humans normally have to give up control and rely on the system to react appropriately. We wanted to investigate the effects of different levels of autonomy on the User Experience (UX) and ran a case study involving autonomous flying d...